(SLIDE SHOW) It's hard to describe this self-titled
World Famous Ricky Powell Slide Show—it's part photography slide show, part guided tour through
the wild-styled streets of NYC circa 1985. Using only a beat-up Minolta, the wisecracking "fourth Beastie Boy" captured amazing portraits of some of old-school New York's finest—characters like
Run-D.M.C., Fab 5 Freddy, Keith Haring, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. There's photography and graffiti-art collaborations, but most importantly there's the man himself telling you, first-person, the
whole crazy story. (
The War Room, 772 Pike St, 328-7666. 6–8 pm, free, 21+.) KELLY O